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Webster 1913 Edition
Drollery
1.
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
The rich
drollery
of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Macaulay.
2.
Something which serves to raise mirth
; as: (a)
A puppet show; also, a puppet.
[Obs.]
Shak.
(b)
A lively or comic picture.
[Obs.]
I bought an excellent
drollery
, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drollery
DROLLERY
,Noun.
1.
Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to raise mirth.2.
A puppet-show.Definition 2024
drollery
drollery
English
Noun
drollery (plural drolleries)
- Comical quality.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 121:
- He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 121:
- Amusing behavior.
- Something humorous, funny or comical.
- (archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
- A joke; a funny story.
Translations
comical quality
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amusing behavior
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a puppet show
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.